Update: we will have to arrive by approx. 1430 hours/2:30pm local time to pick up our reserved tickets!

This means we will

leave Linuxhotel by 1320 hours/1:20pm local time,

walk to the subway station (approx 15 minutes) and buy our subway tickets,

take the 1345 hours/1:45pm subway to Essen Main Station,

take the Tram # 107 departing 1417 hours/2:17pm local time to Essen Zollverein

walk from Essen Zollverein to the ticket booth (approx. 2 minutes)

Due to late feedback from some participants, there are only 6 slots available for the tour unless we would book a custom one (which would have been more expensive, so we opted against it)

We have reserved these 6 slots and will fill them as follows

Mike#2

Uwe

Mihai

KjetilMartin

Heinz

Stefan

Tour participants: Please bring warm clothing and wear sturdy shoes, as we will be spending a good deal of the tour outside and/or on slippery ground, and things might get dirty (it is a coal mine, after all …)!

depending on majority vote, we will either have lunch before the guided tour, or dinner afterwards.Update: Dinner will be after the guided tour, see below.

Pricing info

guided tour through the coal mine: 9 EUR per person

Finding your dinner at Unperfekthaus, Essen

For Dinner, we will go to the http://www.unperfekthaus.de restaurant, as they offer “flat rate” food and all items on their menu are tagged in English and German.

Tour participants:

You will leave the mining site with the Tram #107 to Viehofer Platz at either

1711 hours/5:11pm or Update: Departure times have changed

1726 hours/5:26pm, depending on the exact ending time of the tour (it is scheduled to last 2 hours),

from Viehofer Platz, it is an 11 minute walk to Unperfekthaus,

So you will arrive at Unperfekthaus either around 1737 hours/5:37pm local time or 1752 hours/5:52pm local time.

Folks staying behind at Linuxhotel, please:

leave Linuxhotel by 1655 hours/4:55pm local time,

walk to the subway station Essen-Horst,

get your tickets,

board subway line S3 departing 1715 hours/5:15pm local time to Essen West,

at Essen West, change to Tram #109 departing 1732 hours/5:32pm local time and exit at Berliner Platz,

from there, it's a 5 minute walk to the Unperfekthaus, so you should be there by 1746 hours/5:46pm.

If you decide to tour the city on your own, please be at Unperfekthaus around 1745 hours/5:45pm.

Info: Unperfekthaus is located at Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 18, Essen.

Pricing info

Unperfekthaus food & soft drink flat rate plus visit to the exhibition area: 15,90 EUR per person for one hour, option to upgrade to up to five hours by paying 4 EUR extra p.p. → 19,90 EUR total p.p.

Sunday 2014-11-02

time slot

Topic

Speaker / Moderator

Comment

10.30h-11.15h

Future organizational structure of the X2Go project

Heinz-Markus Graesing and Mike Gabriel

11.15h-11.20h

Crowd-funding NX rewrite/rebasing

Mike Gabriel and Heinz-Markus Graesing (until 11.30h)

Open Discussion Heinz will have to leave by 11.30h

11.20h-11.30h

short break

11.30h-12.20h

(cont'd.) Crowd-funding NX rewrite/rebasing

Mike Gabriel

Open Discussion

12.20h-12.35h

Lightning Talk X2Go / MATE / Ubuntu MATE Remix

Martin Wimpress and Mike Gabriel

status quo, RFHs

12.35h-13.15h

Project Management/Roadmap

TheUser (via Skype)

13.15h-13.30h

Cleaning Rage

13.30h-14.00h

first conference room inspection w/ Linuxhotel staff

Mihai, Mike#2, Uwe, Stefan will leave afterwards

14.00h-15.30h

X2Go / MATE / Ubuntu MATE Remix

Mike#1/Martin

Henning and Tobias will be leaving around 14.30h

15.30h-15.55h

second conference room inspection w/ hotel staff

Room Cleaning Rage

we need to clean the rooms ourselves, that's one of the reasons why the rates are so cheap

ROOMS MUST BE CLEANED OF TRASH AND CLEARED OF YOUR PERSONAL BELONGINGS BY 1000 hours/10am local time!

Topics for the coding sessions

brain storming: organizational structure for an X2Go foundation/club/association or similar

suggestion by Stefan: Since it will most likely be a “club” (“eingetragener Verein”) under German law, we need 7 people physically present for the founding.

The Gathering 2014 will be too early to get the club founded.

We should prepare all the necessary paperwork ASAP after “X2Go: The Gathering 2014” and aim for a “X2Go: The Gathering 2015” way earlier in 2015, maybe some time between March-May, where we can get the club founded.

“X2Go: The Gathering 2015” could take place in Treuchtlingen, where X2Go was originally created.

show-and-tell:

new X2Go TCE (both Mike#1's and Stefan's approach)

electronic GloveBox (Stefan)

mTelePlayer (theUserII/GZNG will join us for a talk - via Skype)

X2Go Client/Server NG - event-driven architecture (Mike#1? Who else?)

support for rbash, postgres, gssapi (Henning)

possibly something Window-ish or Mac-ish by Mike#2 and/or Mihai

Travelling

Info for plane travellers

Attention: Lufthansa and Germanwings are suffering from intermittent strikes by the pilots' union! Avoid using these airlines until further notice!

Info for train travellers

Attention: German Rail (Deutsche Bahn) is suffering from intermittent strikes by the train operators' union! Avoid using trains until further notice! The union has released a statement that no strikes are scheduled until November 2nd, 23:59/11:59pm. So taking the train to X2Go: The Gathering 2014 and back should be possible.

The nearest subway station is “Essen-Horst”

This subway line is operated by Deutsche Bahn, so you can book your railway ticket to destination Essen-Horst and have the subway ticket included in your regular train ticket. Advantage: no need to figure out how the local ticket vending machine works (plus it's probably cheaper that way).

It's a ~ 15 Minute walk from Essen-Horst to the Linuxhotel, please use the route as suggested here: http://goo.gl/maps/wJWrv

NB: some navigation systems plot a shorter pedestrian route that leads through the woods, but from personal experience I (Stefan) can tell you that you do not want to use that path when carrying luggage, possibly in the dark, when you've never walked it before.

Sponsoring

IBM Power Systems Linux

IBM Power Systems Linux has decided to sponsor the X2Go project and our “X2Go: The Gathering” event by supplying us with these “goodies”:

These are goodiebags for the X2Go-Devs that were involved with getting X2Go running on IBM Power.

Linuxhotel house rules

The following is an inofficial translation of Linuxhotel's house rules.

The original, German edition can be found here.
Note that only the German edition is the legally binding one.

Guidelines for a good working relationship in the Linux Hotel

We want all our guests to remember the Linux Hotel as a friendly professional networking location. This includes ensuring that all guests treat each other in a respectful and kind way during their entire stay with us.

It's plain and simple: be nice to others. Do not insult other guests and respect their personal dignity. Do not post photos of others without their consent. Remember that offensive, sexist, racist or similar jokes aimed at singling out somebody (or a group) are inappropriate.

If participants violate these rules, we will take corrective action, which go up to expulsion from the event without refund of the cost.

We hold these rules to be self-evident. And we have the impression that all our guests share this belief. By publishing these rules, we want to prepare ourselves for those situations where it is necessary to defend them.

Cost Overview

Costs per person when staying in a two-bed/three-bed bedroom

15,00 EUR

for conference room use and beverage flat fee on all 3 days.

+30,00 EUR

for two nights in a two-bed/three-bed bedroom

+10,00 EUR

for two breakfasts

+ 5,00 EUR

for conference room cleanup on Sunday

=60,00 EUR

to be paid to Stefan on Saturday morning

Costs per person when staying in a single-bed bedroom

15,00 EUR

for conference room use and beverage flat fee on all 3 days.

+60,00 EUR

for two nights in a single-bed bedroom

+10,00 EUR

for two breakfasts

+ 5,00 EUR

for conference room cleanup on Sunday

=90,00 EUR

to be paid to Stefan on Saturday morning

Costs per person when staying in a two-bed/three-bed bedroom for one night (Kjetil)

10,00 EUR

for conference room use and beverage flat fee on 2 days.

+15,00 EUR

for one night in a two-bed/three-bed bedroom

+ 5,00 EUR

for one breakfast

+ 5,00 EUR

for conference room cleanup on Sunday

=35,00 EUR

to be paid to Stefan on Saturday morning

Additional costs to expect

48-54 EUR

Karlsruhe-Frankfurt-Essen and back carpool

??,?? EUR

Pizza on Friday evening

3,95 EUR

Subway/Tram tickets @ Essen

9,00 EUR

“About Coal and Miners” tour

15,90 EUR

for the dinner flatrate at Unperfekthaus on Saturday evening (Mihai and Tobias might get 20% off, please bring student ID)

4,00 EUR

if you want to extend your stay at Unperfekthaus

??,?? EUR

Pizza on Sunday noon

The Aftermath AKA Lessons Learned

less talks/agenda items per day

shorter agenda items, longer breaks after each item:

no item longer than 45 minutes, evahr

minimum 20 minutes of break after every agenda item - try to schedule longer (25-30min) breaks if possible. You need this as a buffer zone when a talk goes longer than expected, so the audience has at least another 10 minutes of the break left. Ignore this advice, and the next talk will suffer. Hard.

never ever schedule two talks back to back. It is VERBOTEN, SCHWEINHUND!

Absolutely do not give in to Mike#1 when he wants additional talks added!

move talks to the evenings/nights

easier wrt/ projector

schedule coding sessions during daytime

needs no projector

can take place outside if weather permits

Entertainment event/sightseeing

should be around dinner (before or after is less relevant, though afterwards is recommended)

only one event per day

none on departure day

an entirely optional one on arrival day

Lunch vs. Dinner

go for a short lunch break (20-30 minutes) and a long dinner break (60-90 minutes)

make sure there is ample time to sit together and discuss things after dinner - With no computers present! ¡Muy importante!

remember that birds of a feather flock together (no, this is not about a BoF meeting), so try to match people with similar interests in a way that they share the same

hotel room,

hotel floor,

or at least the same hotel building (This will be especially important for Treuchtlingen, where our accomodation is not centralized as it was at Linuxhotel)